Sword Art Online is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec as the story takes place in a near future and focuses on virtual reality MMORPG. (Photo : Facebook/Sword Art Online)
The latest details and possible spoilers for "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" will feature an "Avengers: Age of Ultron" like theme and the anime film will be shown in 1,000 theaters worldwide.
It was during the World Cosplay Summit event that the staff of "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" announced that the anime film will be shown in over 1,000 movie theaters worldwide with multiple languages such as Japanese, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Thai simultaneously.
"Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" will open to 150 movie theaters in Japan and Animeplex USA will handle the distribution of the anime film overseas, AnimeNewsNetwork reported.
In other news, it seems that "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" will have a theme similar to a Marvel Studios produced film as anime director Tomohiko Ito and character designer Shingo Adachi stated that the plot will have "echos" similar to "Avengers: Age of Ultron", Crunchyroll reported.
"Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" is set in the year 2026, four years after the Sword Art Online incident as Kirito, Asuna and the rest of their friends embark on a new adventure in the new VRMMORPG called "Ordinal Scale". Gamers can play "Ordinal Scale" by the used of a new virtual reality device called "Augma", as the design looks like a pair of small earphones, although in terms of size and portability, it is far superior to the existing VR machine “Atmusphere”.
Augma does not have a full-dive function from the previous devices, however, its AR function is greatly enhanced to compensate for it. It can transmit visual, audio and tactual sensation data to players while they are awake, thus enabling the users to enjoy fitness and health management like a game.
In "Ordinal Scale", players can raise their rank by collecting items that appear in various places in the real world and by defeating monsters. The ranking system features of the game are indicated by an ordinal number instead of a cardinal number. This resulted in high ranking players having overwhelming power and often rank has become a major factor in deciding the outcome of a PvP battle.
However, a new threat looms around in "Ordinal Scale" and it is up to Kirito, Asuna and the rest of the gang to stop it and prevent another "SAO" incident once more.
Previous reports revealed that "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" will likely launch on Feb. 18, 2017 via Aeon Cinema Dainichi theater, however the cinema quickly removed that release date from their data base.
It is unknown yet if the supposed February 2017 launch date for "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" legitimate since Aeon cinema removed it from their website. But, several anime films most notably the "Precure" franchise have listed February launch dates as "Spring", which happens to be the supposed release date mark for "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" so there is a possibility that it could premiere on Feb. 18
"Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" will launch cinemas sometime in 2017.
